thoughts on NVLD/the autism spectrum
feeling confused about my diagnosis of NVLD because some people say it’s antithetical to the diagnosis of classic autism because it involves being hyperlexic as opposed to hypervisual…i wish there was more research on it and a more concrete consensus as to what it is.
i feel like it does make sense to include it on the autism spectrum, even though some of its characteristics aren’t classically autistic…but some people get very heated about this concept.
i feel that it’s weird that NVLD is defined as a learning disability because social capacity is so clearly affected by it. i have always done pretty well academically aside from strugging in math, but my social skills are definitely Not Neurotypical At All.
i also relate to people on the autism spectrum because i have always had pretty severe sensory processing issues.
i know that NVLD and ASD can be comorbid. i have heavily considered if i would also qualify as having aspergers disorder, though everyone i’ve brought this idea up to have been pretty dimissive of it.
normally i don’t care at about labels at all. but it feels so weird to me that i lived the first 22 years of my life without realizing that i have a disorder that pretty intensely affects my social skills. as of late, i’m recognizing in horrendous detail how many social faux pas i’ve made in the past due to egregiously misreading social situations.
the notion that there is a neurological reason for my social mistakes is comforting to me. so i want to be able to associate myself with some subset of the population with which my struggles are the norm, because otherwise i feel like….just horribly weird. like an outcast in the worst way. but NVLD isn’t widely discussed, and many don’t consider it a part of the spectrum at all. obviously it falls under the umbrella of neurodivergence, but that’s such a wide-ranging term that it doesn’t confer the same significance to me as the autism spectrum.
idk man. does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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